Fun with AI Content Generation — What It Can and Cannot Do

Michael D. Callaghan
5 min readMay 24, 2022
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This is the first in a series of articles about what kind of writing quality you can get from an AI. A few weeks ago I tried the free trials of some different commercial Artificial Intelligence content creation engines based on GPT-3 technology. If you haven’t yet heard of this, consider this quote from its Wikipedia article:

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text… The quality of the text generated by GPT-3 is so high that it can be difficult to determine whether or not it was written by a human

Don’t Gossip

This was my first exercise, and I think it did OK. I wrote a book called Don’t Say That at Work, which is a collection of painful lessons I learned by making all sorts of communication mistakes over the past 25 years or so. The book has done reasonably well, so I have been considering a sequel. I asked some of my Twitter followers what other topics I should hit. One of them was about gossip.

I am not a huge gossiper, and as I said, I had just gotten a free trial to one of the AIs. I thought it might be fun to see what it could do for me.

Here is what it generated from the prompt: blog post about the dangers of gossip at work. I’ll…

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